Taylor Swift's jet emissions controversy leads to #US ban on tracking private aircraft.
The recent amendment allows owners of private aircraft to hide their registration details from the public.
Anything to protect the rich and famous.
What you don't know won't hurt you... plebs
"The record of the ICC is so horrendous, it used to be called the International Caucasian Court, because it only indicted African leaders.
"I would say the pressure became probably unbearable [on Karim Khan] & he lost all credibility. It would have been very hard for Karim Khan - who was being mocked for the past 6 months for doing nothing - to stay silent."
"Egypt has basically accepted every term that Israel imposed on it..to a degree..of actual collusion."
"Egypt has denied access into Gaza to the international media, Egyptian media, human rights investigators.... Why do Israel’s bidding by denying them..at the Egyptian side?"
Egypt gives "Israelis complete control on the vetting of who comes out of Gaza", even stranded Egyptian citizens.
For them, it is a pleasure to burn. We all know who we are dealing with. Russia is run by men who want to make it a norm – burning lives, destroying cities and villages, dividing people, and erasing national borders through war.
There is no nation that can stop such war alone, unaided. World leaders’ engagement is needed.
Does Russia want dialogue? Ukraine has the world’s largest experience of lies from Russia during negotiations. That’s exactly why global efforts are needed. The Global Peace Summit of the leaders whom Russia won’t be able to deceive.
I am appealing to the leaders of the world who are still aside from the global efforts of the Global Peace Summit – to President #Biden@potus the leader of the #US, and to President #Xi, the leader of #China. Please, show your leadership in advancing peace. Real peace, not just a pause between the strikes.
Is anyone else impressed by #Zelenskyy giving a speech in English, under extreme stress? That building is still burning. Please, boost 🙏 🇺🇦 #Ukraine
President Zelenskyy ask for America and China to join 80 countries of the world at the global peace summit President Zelenskyy is standing in a burning building that russian barbarians hit with a missile and killed peaceful Ukrainians, he is giving a speech in English requesting the world to join together at the global peace summit to stop Putin's barbaric genocide of Ukrainians. Please, maximum boost. UKRAINIANS need our SUPPORT. THANK YOU 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine#Ukraine
Vessels supporting US pier wash away in heavy seas off Gaza
"The pier has been criticised as a complicated & costly alternative that tries to deflect attention from demanding a much simpler solution – for Israel to fully open all land crossings to Gaza & to secure aid trucks going in."
Israel is keeping land crossings - "the only effective way of getting large-scale aid to starving Palestinians" - closed.
Egypt's el-Sisi has agreed to allow UN aid through the Karem Abu Salem border crossing into Gaza.
The agreement took place during a phone conversation with Biden.
Israel seized the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on May 6. The closure created a backlog of aid in Egypt, where some of the food aid has begun to rot.
The US pier is a “fig leaf to cover US complicity in genocide & in the destruction of UNRWA” & has "failed to have any meaningful impact."
~Craig Mokhiber, fmr top UN official
"On Friday, the UN said it had received the equivalent of 97 trucks of humanitarian supplies through the floating dock since it came into operation on May 17."
This is a speck in the ocean of aid required to meet Gaza's needs, & only land routes can supply that.
"Israel has a history of blocking UN investigators from entering Palestinian territory".
The ICJ "ruled that Israel must allow the UN & other relevant bodies unimpeded access to the Gaza Strip to investigate allegations of genocide.
"Israel has denied access to similar inquiries in the past. ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan visited Israel & the occupied West Bank in December last year but did not visit the Gaza Strip."
Vessels supporting US pier wash away in heavy seas off Gaza
"The pier has been criticised as a complicated & costly alternative that tries to deflect attention from demanding a much simpler solution – for Israel to fully open all land crossings to Gaza & to secure aid trucks going in."
Israel is keeping land crossings - "the only effective way of getting large-scale aid to starving Palestinians" - closed.
Skop – who has called the supreme court’s overturning of #RoevWade “a victory in the battle but not the end of the #war” – has argued in favor of forcing #rape and #incest#victims as young as nine or 10 to carry #pregnancies to term.
The ICJ rulings last week as to Israel also included rulings as to Hamas; including a cease fire order and an order that Hamas release all Israeli hostages. The US through Anthony #Blinken said that Israel can ignore the ICJ rulings directed to it. I assume Blinken is also directing Hamas to ignore the rulings against it, to keep fighting, and to continue holding the Israeli hostages.
"Hugh Thompson, Jr., Glenn Andreotta, and Lawrence Colburn. They were three members of the US Army, who received the Soldiers Medal on March 6, 1998 for their actions 30 years earlier as they flew a mission on March 16, 1968.
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Thompson and his crew did not act against a foreign enemy, but against members their own US military."